Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThat your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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